آج

See also: آخ, أخ, اخ, and آچ

Kalami

Etymology

Cognate with Kashmiri اَز (az).

Adverb

آج (āǰ)

1. today

Old Anatolian Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *āč

Adjective

آجْ • (āç)

1. hungry

Noun

آجْ • (āç)

1. someone who is hungry

   آجْ كُورْسَك طُويُرْغِلْ ، يَلِنْجَقْ كُورْسَكْ طُونَاتْغِلْ

   āç görseŋ ṭoyurġıl, yalıncak görseŋ ṭonatġıl

   if you see someone hungry, feed them; if you see someone barefoot, equip them

Descendants

• Azerbaijani: ac
• Gagauz: aaç
• Ottoman Turkish: آج (aç)
  • Turkish: aç

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish آجْ (āç), from Proto-Turkic *āč. Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰀𐰲 (āč), Azerbaijani ac, Bashkir ас (as), Kazakh аш (aş), Kyrgyz ач (ac), Turkmen aç, Uyghur ئاچ (ach), Uzbek och and Yakut аас (aas).

Adjective

آج • (ac)

1. hungry, affected by hunger, having the physical need for food

   Synonyms: جائع (caʼiʼ), كرسنه (gürsine)

2. fasting, abstaining from food, especially for religious reasons

   Synonym: اوروجلو (oruclu)

3. greedy, covetous, avaricious, distastefully keen or desirous

   Synonyms: آج كوزلو (ac gözlü), حریص (haris)

4. (of soil) hungry, starved, deprived of nourishment, not fertile

Derived terms

• آج آجنه (ac acına, “through prolonged privation of food”)
• آج صوسز (ac susuz, “deprived of food and water”)
• آج طورمق (ac durmak, “to remain without food”)
• آج طوپراق (ac toprak, “dry soil”)
• آج طویرمق (ac doyurmak, “to feed the poor”)
• آج قارننه (ac karnına, “on an empty stomach”)
• آج قالمق (ac kalmak, “to go hungry, be starved”)
• آج قومق (ac komak, “to keep a man starving”)
• آج كوزلو (ac gözlü, “covetous”)
• آجلق (aclık, “hunger”)
• آجلو (aclı, “hungered”)

Descendants

• Turkish: aç
• → Laz: აჯი (aci)

Further reading

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• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “آج”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 15
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “aç1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 96
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “آج”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 8a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “آج”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 7
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Famelicus”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 549
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “آج”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 55
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “aç”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آج”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 25

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Persian [Term?].

Noun

آج • (ac) (definite accusative آجی (acı), plural آجلر (aclar))

1. tamarisk, salt cedar, any of several shrubs in the genus Tamarix

   Synonyms: ایلغین (ılgın), طرفا (tarfa), كز (gez)

Descendants

• Turkish: ac

Further reading

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• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “ac2”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 88
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “âc”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[6] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 8
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Tamarix”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[7], Vienna, column 1648
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “آج”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[8], Vienna, column 55
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “آج”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[9], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 26

Urdu

Etymology

Inherited from Prakrit 𑀅𑀚𑁆𑀚 (ajja), from Sanskrit अद्य (adyá).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɑːd͡ʒ/

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Adverb

آج • (āj) (Hindi spelling आज)

1. today

Coordinate terms

Dates relative to today in Urdu (layout · text)
	–3	–2	–1	0	+1	+2	+3
direct speech	three days ago	two days ago	yesterday	today	tomorrow	in two days	in three days
	تَرْسوں (tarsõ)	پَرْسوں (parsõ)	کَل (kal)	آج (āj)	کَل (kal)	پَرْسوں (parsõ)	تَرْسوں (tarsõ)
reported speech	three days before, three days earlier	two days before, two days earlier	the day before	on that day	the next day	two days later	three days later
	تِین دِن پَہْلے (tīn din pahle) تِین دِن قَبْل (tīn din qabl)	دو دِن پَہْلے (do din pahle) دو دِن قَبْل (do din qabl)	پِچْھلے دِن (pichle din) ایک دِن پَہْلے (ek din pahle) ایک دِن قَبْل (ek din qabl)	اُس دِن (us din)	اَگْلے دِن (agle din) ایک دِن بَعْد (ek din ba'd)	دُوسْرے دِن (dūsre din) دو دِن بَعْد (do din ba'd)	تِیسْرے دِن (tīsre din) تِین دِن بَعْد (tīn din ba'd)

Noun

آج • (āj) m (Hindi spelling आज)

1. today

   Synonyms: اِمْروز (imroz), اَدْیہ (adyh)

References

• Platts, John T. (1884) “آج”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.

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Adverb

آج (āj)

1. today